Chapter 5I’ve always been drawn to the romanticism of airports and harbours, but airports in particular are indelibly etched on my mind. I remember a fateful January day in 1989 at Melbourne Airport, waving goodbye to Hailey, the love of my life and having every intention of joining her in the U.K. That farewell came back to haunt me over the years and although I’ve had happier memories in airports since that fateful memory came flooding back some six weeks ago when I was getting ready to walk through into customs at Melbourne airport with the twins. The original plan was for yours truly to head off to Britain to see Hailey alone, but I’d reckoned without the resolve of my twins. Jennifer and Hailey are identical twins and inseparable, and when they put their heads together there isn’t muc
